Actually, pretty much the entire principle cast of The Godfather was in The Godfather, Part II. All except Marlon Brando and Richard Castellano really. Even James Caan, Abe Vigoda, and Gianni Russo appeared in flashbacks.

Talia Shire and Joe Spinell were in The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II, and Rocky. I am pretty sure they are the only ones to appear in 3 Best Picture winners together. Shire of course played Connie Corleone and Adrian in The Godfather, Parts I and II and Rocky, and Spinell played Willi Cicci and Tony Gazzo in those films as well.

There could be others... here's a list for Wikipedia that I've been working on for a few years of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture winners...

Another useless bit of information... the last time Firth and Rush were in a Best Picture winner together, they did it the year after a James Cameron movie was up for multiple Oscars including Best Picture and became the highest grossing film of all-time (Titanic and Avatar). Not that it means anything, but it's kind of amusingly weird.

Firth has also appeared in 2 different Best Picture winners in which a sibling from one Best Picture winner was in the other Best Picture winner (this is worded really awkwardly, I apologize). He was in The English Patient with Ralph Fiennes and Shakespeare in Love with Joseph Fiennes.

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Sorry. I wasn't getting them easily, I had to sort and then search and find a few, which may have resulted in me missing Keaton. The Boyer thing was probably when I put him down before deciding to separate out the honoraries and just forgot to go back and think about the winners if they were or not. I knew Stanwyck and Russell for sure. Boyer I had forgotten

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Over a short 11-year span, there were three films based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses -- Dangerous Liaisons, Valmont and Cruel Intentions. The three -- mostly the first two -- featured any number of actors who've contended for awards in various media. Yet, until last week, the only person from that illustrious group who'd managed to win an Oscar was Reese Witherspoon from the worst of the three. Thank you, Colin Firth, for changing that.

And now, may we get to work on Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer, John Malkovich...

I'll admit she's not a Ryan Phillippe, but what about an honorary award for Jeanne Moreau?

Over a short 11-year span, there were three films based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses -- Dangerous Liaisons, Valmont and Cruel Intentions. The three -- mostly the first two -- featured any number of actors who've contended for awards in various media. Yet, until last week, the only person from that illustrious group who'd managed to win an Oscar was Reese Witherspoon from the worst of the three. Thank you, Colin Firth, for changing that.

And now, may we get to work on Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer, John Malkovich...

Toy Story 3 is the first film to win Best Animated Feature and Best Song. Only two other Animated Feature winners have won awards in another category as well; Up won Best Score and The Incredibles won Best Sound Editing.

It's the first sequel to win the Best Animated Feature category, and (I'm pretty certain) the fourth sequel to win the Best Song category. The others are Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Big Broadcast of 1938, and Gold Diggers of 1935.